💌 Aug 02: jewelry boxes, nine perfect strangers, minimalist style

TODAY IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 02

WHAT TO EXPECT

• stories: more angel investors are women, is rizz the secret?, drivers of rental demand

• this week’s watch: Nine Perfect Strangers

• extra stories

• recent articles: anatomy of the minimalist style + 3 brands we love

• weekly favorites: jewelry boxes

• quote: on wellness

• winner: tina***@gmail.com

WEALTH: NEARLY HALF OF ANGEL INVESTORS ARE WOMEN
The VC landscape is experiencing a shift in gender dynamics, according to recent data. Although there is an overall contraction in angel investment, the proportion of female angel investors has increased over the past three years, reaching 46.7% in 2023. Also women-led companies now make up 46.3% of organizations seeking funding, up from 28.6% in 2021.

WORK LIFE: IS RIZZ THE SECRET TO GETTING AHEAD AT WORK?
Gen Z has a concept of charisma, AKA "rizz" in modern slang and a lot of people believe that it’s not an innate quality but a skill that can be developed. True charisma is about making others feel important and fostering genuine connections by asking meaningful questions, remembering personal details, and embracing your own quirks and imperfections. Once you’ve pretty much mastered how to play it cool and kind, you’re able to have certain conversations at work that’ll help you move forward because you’ll be more personable than some colleagues.

LIFESTYLE: WHO IS DRIVING RENTAL DEMAND?
The rental housing market is experiencing a significant shift in demographic demand. As millennials transition to homeownership, Gen Z is now driving demand. Baby boomers are also contributing to sustained rental demand as they age, with over 1 million new renter households headed by individuals 65 or older in the past five years. Both the youngest and oldest adult generations are now shaping the rental housing landscape in the U.S.

Based on The New York Times best-selling book by author Liane Moriarty, "Nine Perfect Strangers" takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what’s about to hit them.

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As excess and overconsumption continue to grow in contemporary times, the minimalist style is a symbol of simplicity, classiness, and timelessness. The mantra, if you will, of the minimalist style is usually “less is more”; an approach that will likely never go out of style because minimalism enhances the features you already have, rather than using clothing to bring about features that aren’t necessarily there.

ON WELLNESS: Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit - the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being. — Greg Anderson

Wellness isn't about isolated aspects of our lives, but rather the harmonious combination of multiple elements: mind, body, and soul. This triad represents the core components of human existence, and a comprehensive approach to health and well-being, to truly be "well," includes attending to all aspects of our lives.